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Because of erroneous information supplied to The Orlando Sentinel, the date given for the Tom Wopat concert at Sweeney's Place in Orlando was incorrect in Friday's Calendar. The concert will be April 27 with doors opening at 8 p.m.

An Orlando man was arrested tonight after police said he threatened a maintenance worker and shot at officers. Police were called to Venetian Place condominiums on Gatlin Avenue just east of Semoran Boulevard about 4:20 p.m. because a resident was waving a gun at a maintenance worker, they said. The man went inside his unit and shot several times through the door at officers, but no one was hurt, police said. After evacuating a few nearby units, officers lobbed gas into the condo about 6:15 p.m. and took Tracy Lewis Walker, 43, into custody.

The Florida Highway Patrol on Thursday identified the victims of a fatal traffic accident in Pine Hills on Monday night as Errol Walter, 37, and Joanne Thaxter, 41, both of 5222 Montaque Place in Orlando. Their compact car ran out of control on North Pine Hills Road and slammed into a building.

Tammy Hughes, Orlando's fire marshal, has updated her estimate of how many people turned out to see -- or try to see -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Monday evening. She now puts the total at 60,000. Hughes said that "maybe 30,000 people" actually got onto the plaza area of Amway Arena, where Obama and Clinton spoke from a platform. But Hughes said she and several members of the Orlando Police Department also surveyed the crowds lined up around the arena and on neighboring streets.

John Anderson, the Apopka-native country singer who has had such hits as ''Swingin' '' and ''Down in the Orange Grove,'' will perform at Sweeney's Place in Orlando. Doors open at 8 p.m.; tickets are $10 in advance at Sweeney's or $12 at the door.Season opener: The Orlando Lions of the American Soccer League vs. Washington Stars at 8:05 p.m. at the Florida Citrus Bowl. Tickets: $6 at gate, $5 in advance.

THE OLYMPIA & York saga takes an important new turn this week as its creditors vote on a plan that could leave the banks and bondholders owning many of O&Y's trophy properties in Canada. Starting Monday and continuing through Friday, 34 groups of creditors gathered in Toronto, where the developer is based, to vote on the complex debt restructuring agreement. Olympia & York, once regarded as the world's largest property developer, owns First Union Building at Olympia Place in Orlando and the 120,000-square-foot Winter Park Plaza at North Orange Avenue and U.S. 17-92 in Winter Park.

MY WIFE and I were privileged to tour the new Arnold Palmer Children and Women's Hospital in Orlando.It truly is a remarkable place. Palmer and all those responsible for the completion of this dream have every right to be proud of their effort.Each person who worked so hard to make the tour enjoyable is owed a debt of gratitude. Staff members were obviously proud and shared their enthusiasm with the visitors.As a former Pennsylvanian, I am proud of Palmer, who also is from the Keystone State.

-- VIEW FROM THE HILL. U.S. Reps. Bill Nelson, D-Melbourne, and Bill McCollum, R-Altamonte Springs, will discuss how Florida is viewed on Capitol Hill and the state's importance to the nation at this week's Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce's Orange Juice Forum. The public forum, sponsored by the Orlando accounting firm Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, will take place at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Expo Centre in downtown Orlando. The chamber is expected to announce that Nelson and McCollum will serve as honorary chairmen during a two-day meeting on Central Florida issues.

Tammy Hughes, Orlando's fire marshal, has updated her estimate of how many people turned out to see -- or try to see -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Monday evening. She now puts the total at 60,000. Hughes said that "maybe 30,000 people" actually got onto the plaza area of Amway Arena, where Obama and Clinton spoke from a platform. But Hughes said she and several members of the Orlando Police Department also surveyed the crowds lined up around the arena and on neighboring streets.

An Orlando teen was killed and four passengers in his car were injured when the car struck a tree Wednesday on Florida's Turnpike.Tremayne Miller, 17, died from injuries he suffered when he lost control of his 1995 Ford while heading south on the turnpike, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.Miller of 8413 Snowfire Drive was wearing his seatbelt when the car went off the road and slammed into a pine tree near Clermont, troopers said.Passengers Brendina Gordon, 31, and Tafari Gordon, 16, both of 2064 Wautoma Place in Orlando were treated and released at Leesburg Regional Medical Center.

Wrestling with financial deficits, Orlando-based InCharge Institute of America Inc. has laid off 42 workers and its chief executive officer has stepped down amid a 13 percent cutback of its work force, the corporation said Friday. The credit counseling operation, which employed nearly 320 at its local headquarters before the cutbacks, cited shrinking revenues, increasing demand and higher technology costs as factors in the downsizing. InCharge, a not-for-profit, provides telephone-based debt counseling services, financial literacy outreach programs and other resources for hundreds of thousands of consumers annually.

Today is the first meeting of an Osceola County chapter of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.The group is the latest unit to form out of the Puerto Rican government's main Cultural Center in San Juan. In 1997, Orlando was the first city on the mainland to open a chapter. Since then, New York has founded a center and Miami is preparing to open one later this month.Judith Magali Rojas is helping organize the local effort with a meeting at the Buenaventura Lakes Community Center.The organization's goal is ``to make known our culture, the good part,'' Rojas said, ``because many people have the impression that we are all about street festivals where people go to drink.

An Orlando teen was killed and four passengers in his car were injured when the car struck a tree Wednesday on Florida's Turnpike.Tremayne Miller, 17, died from injuries he suffered when he lost control of his 1995 Ford while heading south on the turnpike, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.Miller of 8413 Snowfire Drive was wearing his seatbelt when the car went off the road and slammed into a pine tree near Clermont, troopers said.Passengers Brendina Gordon, 31, and Tafari Gordon, 16, both of 2064 Wautoma Place in Orlando were treated and released at Leesburg Regional Medical Center.

The anti-drug and anti-crime messages of Monday's controversial Million Man March in Washington, D.C., are coming to Kissimmee Saturday.The county's first African-American Male Summit, planned long before the march was conceived, is an attempt to reach local teen-age boys and inspire them toward lives of responsibility and success.It isn't affiliated with the march, but many of its purposes are similar.''This generation is not being prepared to face the challenges of the 21st century because of lack of education, lack of guidance,'' said Marie Jones, one of the organizers.

Manager of Thornton Park Cafe, Orlando. Age: 29. Years in restaurant business: 10. Length of time with Thornton Park Cafe: 2 months; Hometown: Loveland, Colo.; Family: Single.My first restaurant job was: Waitress at Top of the Town on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando.My job description is: I supervise a small staff of waiters and cooks and make sure the restaurant is running smoothly.The thing I like the most about managing a restaurant is: I like taking care of the guests.The thing I like least about managing a restaurant is: The heavy hours.

AS I read your editorial titled ''The Prison Myth Lingers,'' it seemed to strike a chord with me: ''That's exactly the way I believe!''Having worked in Tomoka Correctional Institution here at Daytona Beach on three weekends in the ''KAIROS'' program, which is a spiritual weekend for about 42 inmates at a time, I have met many fine men. I believe that just building and building more and more beds is not the answer for our problem. Reality would show that if this continues, we would eventually have half of Florida covered with prison beds!

Today is the first meeting of an Osceola County chapter of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.The group is the latest unit to form out of the Puerto Rican government's main Cultural Center in San Juan. In 1997, Orlando was the first city on the mainland to open a chapter. Since then, New York has founded a center and Miami is preparing to open one later this month.Judith Magali Rojas is helping organize the local effort with a meeting at the Buenaventura Lakes Community Center.The organization's goal is ``to make known our culture, the good part,'' Rojas said, ``because many people have the impression that we are all about street festivals where people go to drink.

Take a stroll through Lorna Doone Park and you'll likely spot Lawrence Fleming nestled on a park bench attacking a canvas with oils or watercolors.A husky dude, dressed in weathered jeans, two thermal jackets and a sport shirt, Fleming is a rambling man. He has to be. He's homeless. All that he owns fits snugly in a worn sack.Including his paints and brushes.Fleming figures that's his ticket. One masterpiece. One sale. Uncork the Dom Perignon.A pipe dream? Perhaps. But Fleming and other aspiring artists who have run into hard times get a chance to chase their dreams at an Orlando art gallery that offers them a showplace.